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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

WRITER: Bert DeSimone, 706/338-9849, bert@uga.edu
CONTACTS: Sandi Glass, executive director of the College of Education Office of Information Technology and CIO Advisory Council Chair, 706/542-1194, slglass@uga.edu, and Brian Rivers, director of Security, Network Operations, and Infrastructure, EITS, 706/542-0325, brivers@uga.edu

SecureUGA deadline: November 30

ATHENS, Ga.— The deadline for participation in SecureUGA, an information security education and awareness program that includes mandatory, self-paced, online awareness presentations, is November 30, 2008. (Please note that the last working day at UGA before the Thanksgiving holiday break is November 26.)

All UGA employees currently on the UGA payroll are required to complete four awareness modules by the November 30 deadline. This includes faculty, staff, administrators, and all student workers, graduate assistants, research assistants, teaching assistants, and work-study students.

All students are encouraged to participate, but are not required to do so unless they are in the aforementioned list.

The required modules can be accessed via the SecureUGA Web site:

After connecting to the Web site, click on the following link to begin:

Please continue to the Role Based Security Awareness Presentations.

After logging in with a MyID and password, the modules will be presented.

The four modules required for completion by November 30 are:

• Security in the Workplace
• Your Role in SecureUGA
• What is Sensitive Data?
• Securing Portable Electronic Devices

Each module should take less than 5 minutes to complete. It is not necessary to do all the modules at one time.

In addition to the four required modules, there are a number of others that include important information related to information security at UGA. The module E-Mail and Web Security, for example, provides excellent information on avoiding phishing scams.

The additional modules will be required in 2009. Although no firm deadline for these additional modules has been set, everyone is encouraged to take them at their earliest convenience and will receive full credit toward compliance with future participation requirements.

Problems encountered during access or use of the modules should be reported to the EITS Help Desk: helpdesk@uga.edu / 706-542-3106.

About SecureUGA
SecureUGA (secure.uga.edu) is a role based security training and accountability model in which every individual, regardless of position, has a responsibility to protect our sensitive and critical data. SecureUGA is comprised of three components: policy and procedures, technology, and people. Policy sets the foundation to guide our process and action. Technological enhancements will build strong systems and infrastructure. The third and most important component, people, will be addressed via awareness, training, and education.

About the Office of the CIO and EITS
The Office of the Chief Information Officer and Enterprise Information Technology Services (EITS) are committed to the mission of UGA as a land-and-sea-grant institution where academics come first and the research extensive university community encourages research efforts at the undergraduate and graduate levels. To that end, under the direction of the University´s Chief Information Officer, EITS endeavors to provide a robust, reliable, and secure information technology infrastructure, maintain essential production services, and offer world-class support.